Free Blacks in the South: The Life of Thomas Day

How might a southern-born free black also be an abolitionist? ASHP staff member, Donna Thompson Ray, interviews historian Peter H. Wood about the life of cabinetmaker, Thomas Day, and how his experience as a free black characterized nineteenth-century race relations in the South. Wood provides an assessment of Day’s life as a business owner, family man, community member, and agent of social justice. Day is projected through both public and private (hidden) personal narratives. Behind the aesthetically appealing walnut pews, pine wardrobes, and mahogany side chairs was a man of deep social conviction operating in tenuous circumstances.

“Thomas Day: Nineteenth-Century Free Black Cabinetmaker” is a Now and Then podcast conversation. The Now and Then podcast series features conversations and interviews with scholars, educators, and ASHP staff members on topics in history.

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Difficult Histories/Public Spaces: The Challenge of Monuments in New York City and the Nation is a series of public programs...

Published February 5, 2019

In this episode, Michele Bogart, professor and author of the recently published Sculpture in Gotham: Art and Urban Renewal In New York City, untangles the bureaucracy of monument creation in New York City.

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